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<?page
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title=>LiveJournal.com Guiding Principles
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<?_code
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LJ::set_active_crumb('guidingprinciples');
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_code?>
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<?h1 Our Principles h1?>
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<?p We at LiveJournal try to make our service a pleasant experience for our
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users, so we've assembled a list of business principles that help guide our
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operation of the LiveJournal service. p?>
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<?h1 We operate the LiveJournal service with the following goals: h1?>
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<dl class='gp'>
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<dt>Work with the community, for the community</dt>
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<dd>We will strive to keep you informed of changes to the best of our
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abilities without being intrusive, and to run our business based on
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feedback from the LiveJournal community, with the LiveJournal community's
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best interests in mind.</dd>
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<dt>Honor the status of every account</dt>
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<dd>We fully intend to honor the status of our users' accounts, as
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follows: Permanent accounts will be honored for the life of the
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service. Paid accounts will remain as paid accounts until they expire,
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unless they are renewed in advance. Early adopters will be granted access
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to the paid features that were freely available in the early history of the
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site. (Account status valid with the exception of account termination by
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means of <a href="/legal/tos.bml">Terms of Service</a> violation.)</dd>
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<dt>Maintain reliable uptime</dt>
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<dd>We try to keep things running smoothly for everyone, especially since
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we use the system, too. Unfortunately, server hangups do occur, but we will
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plan ahead to try to avoid them.</dd>
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<dt>Avoid banner advertisements</dt>
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<dd>As it's one of our larger pet peeves, we have avoided putting banner
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advertisements on the site. Although our Terms of Service permits us to
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change our policy in the future, we've found throughout the past few years
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that our "paid accounts" business model has, so far, made banners ads
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unnecessary.</dd>
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<dt>Avoid spam</dt>
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<dd>We strongly believe that spam has no place on the internet, and
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we endeavor not to send you e-mail without your implied or explicit
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consent. When you sign up for the Service, we understand that to mean
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you want to communicate with us and hear from us about our products and
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services. If we do send you a message or contact you, we give you an option
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to opt-out so that we won't send you similar messages in the future. We are
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not in the business of selling lists of users' e-mail addresses or personal
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information, though we may share users' information under certain special
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circumstances, such as with an entity that owns or is owned by LiveJournal,
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with our service providers and vendors in connection with the operation of
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the service and our business, where we think it is appropriate or required
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by law or to protect our legal rights, or if the business is being sold or
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reorganized. (For more information on these special circumstances, click
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<a href="/legal/privacy.bml">here</a>.)</dd>
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<dt>Support the Free Software movement</dt>
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<dd>We're big supporters of Open Source software - we have used it and
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contributed to it extensively. As part of our contribution to the Open
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Source community, we have made available to the public a large amount of
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source code for software that we've used to run the LiveJournal service,
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and that contributed source code will remain free and open. We plan to
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continue to give back to the community by contributing certain bug fixes,
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testing, documentation and new code. In addition, we continue to encourage
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people to innovate using the open source code we have contributed.</dd>
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</dl>
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